ml/nj,
I recommend reading Post #41; I think it comes the closest to “hitting the mark” on the intent of the cartoonist.
I think you might be reading too much into it.
Oh, please!
"They'll have to get someone else to write the next stimulus bill." They didn't kill the bill (and they almost suggest we still need another one). They killed the (supposed) author who is likened to a monkey.
Look! I'm about as un-PC as anyone here. I don't like to defend any sort of correctness, but this was in very bad taste.
ML/NJ